SSA activities

Space Weather - SWE Segment

Developing Europe's capability to watch our Sun

The objective of the SSA Space Weather Segment is to provide owners and operators of critical spaceborne and ground-based infrastructure timely and accurate information that supports mitigation of the adverse impacts of space weather.

In order to achieve accurate and reliable space weather services, constant monitoring of the Sun and the space environment from a range of vantage points is needed, together with timely dissemination of reliable data to those needing the information.

Europe already has a wealth of expertise and assets providing high-quality scientific observations, results and models together with a number of space-weather products − processed, usable data − to customers in industry, government and research institutes.

The SSA Space Weather Segment (SWE) is building on this foundation to develop a federated space-weather service-provision concept, avoiding duplication and ensuring that existing assets and resources play a key role in Europe’s Space Weather System.

Space weather and its hazards
Space weather refers to the environmental conditions in space as influenced by solar activity.
For our daily lives and routine economic activities on planet Earth, the conditions within the Earth's magnetosphere, ionosphere and thermosphere are parti...

Space Weather Segment
The objective of the SSA Space Weather Segment is to provide owners and operators of critical spaceborne and ground-based infrastructure timely and accurate information to enable mitigation of the adverse impacts of space weather.

Monitoring space weather
Providing timely and accurate space weather information, nowcasts and forecasts is possible only if sufficient observation data are continuously available.
Because Earth is well protected against space weather by its magnetic field and the atmosphere...